Psalm 113:7
New International Version
He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap;

New Living Translation
He lifts the poor from the dust and the needy from the garbage dump.

English Standard Version
He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap,

Berean Standard Bible
He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the dump

King James Bible
He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth the needy out of the dunghill;

New King James Version
He raises the poor out of the dust, And lifts the needy out of the ash heap,

New American Standard Bible
He raises the poor from the dust, He lifts the needy from the garbage heap,

NASB 1995
He raises the poor from the dust And lifts the needy from the ash heap,

NASB 1977
He raises the poor from the dust, And lifts the needy from the ash heap,

Legacy Standard Bible
Who raises the poor from the dust And lifts high the needy from the ash heap,

Amplified Bible
He raises the poor out of the dust And lifts the needy from the ash heap,

Christian Standard Bible
He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the trash heap

Holman Christian Standard Bible
He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the garbage pile

American Standard Version
He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, And lifteth up the needy from the dunghill;

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
He raises the afflicted from a dunghill

Brenton Septuagint Translation
who lifts up the poor from the earth, and raises up the needy from the dunghill;

Contemporary English Version
God lifts the poor and needy from dust and ashes,

Douay-Rheims Bible
Raising up the needy from the earth, and lifting up the poor out of the dunghill::

English Revised Version
He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the needy from the dunghill;

GOD'S WORD® Translation
He lifts the poor from the dust. He lifts the needy from a garbage heap.

Good News Translation
He raises the poor from the dust; he lifts the needy from their misery

International Standard Version
He lifts the poor person from the dust, raising the needy from the trash pile

JPS Tanakh 1917
Who raiseth up the poor out of the dust, And lifteth up the needy out of the dunghill;

Literal Standard Version
He is raising up the poor from the dust, | He exalts the needy from a dunghill.

Majority Standard Bible
He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the dump

New American Bible
He raises the needy from the dust, lifts the poor from the ash heap,

NET Bible
He raises the poor from the dirt, and lifts up the needy from the garbage pile,

New Revised Standard Version
He raises the poor from the dust, and lifts the needy from the ash heap,

New Heart English Bible
He raises up the poor out of the dust. Lifts up the needy from the ash heap;

Webster's Bible Translation
He raiseth the poor out of the dust, and lifteth the needy out of the dunghill;

World English Bible
He raises up the poor out of the dust, and lifts up the needy from the ash heap,

Young's Literal Translation
He is raising up from the dust the poor, From a dunghill He exalteth the needy.

Additional Translations ...
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Context
The LORD Exalts the Humble
6He humbles Himself to behold the heavens and the earth. 7He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the dump 8to seat them with nobles, with the princes of His people.…

Cross References
1 Samuel 2:8
He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap. He seats them among princes and bestows on them a throne of honor. For the foundations of the earth are the LORD's, and upon them He has set the world.

Psalm 107:41
But He lifts the needy from affliction and increases their families like flocks.


Treasury of Scripture

He raises up the poor out of the dust, and lifts the needy out of the dunghill;

raiseth

Psalm 75:6,7
For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south…

Psalm 107:41
Yet setteth he the poor on high from affliction, and maketh him families like a flock.

Job 5:11,15,16
To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety…

out of

Psalm 22:15
My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.

Isaiah 26:19
Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.

Daniel 12:2,3
And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt…

needy

1 Samuel 2:7,8
The LORD maketh poor, and maketh rich: he bringeth low, and lifteth up…

1 Samuel 24:14
After whom is the king of Israel come out? after whom dost thou pursue? after a dead dog, after a flea.

2 Samuel 7:8,9
Now therefore so shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote, from following the sheep, to be ruler over my people, over Israel: …

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Psalm 113
1. An exhortation to praise God for his excellence
6. For his mercy














(7-8) See 1Samuel 2:8, from which the verses are taken; and comp. Luke 1:52.

So the heathen poet sang of Jove (Hor.: Odes i., 34, 35).

(7) Dunghill.--Literally, a heap of rubbish. "Before each village in Hauran there is a place where the household heap up the sweepings of their stalls, and it gradually reaches a great circumference and a height which rises far above the highest buildings of the village." "The mezbela serves the inhabitants of the district as a watch-tower, and on close oppressive evenings as a place of assembly, because there is a current of air on the height. There the children play about the whole day long; there the forsaken one lies who, having been seized with some horrible malady, is not allowed to enter the dwellings of men, by day asking alms of the passers by, and at night hiding himself among the ashes which the sun has warmed."--Delitzsch's Commentary on the Book of Job, ii. 152, with Note by Wetzstein. It was on the mezbela that, according to tradition, Job sat.

Verse 7. - He raiseth up the poor out of the dust. Heaven is full of his glory, earth of his mercy and loving-kindness. The words of 1 Samuel 2:8 are, consciously or unconsciously, quoted. And lifteth the needy out of the dunghill; rather, from the dunghill (Revised Version).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
He raises
מְקִֽימִ֣י (mə·qî·mî)
Verb - Hifil - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's 6965: To arise, stand up, stand

the poor
דָּ֑ל (dāl)
Adjective - masculine singular construct
Strong's 1800: Dangling, weak, thin

from the dust
מֵעָפָ֣ר (mê·‘ā·p̄ār)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 6083: Dust, clay, earth, mud

and lifts
יָרִ֥ים (yā·rîm)
Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 7311: To be high actively, to rise, raise

the needy
אֶבְיֽוֹן׃ (’eḇ·yō·wn)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 34: In want, needy, poor

from the dump
מֵֽ֝אַשְׁפֹּ֗ת (mê·’aš·pōṯ)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 830: An ash heap, refuse heap, dunghill


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